Kaitlin Pomerantz

Kaitlin Pomerantz (she, they) is an interdisciplinary artist and educator based in Philadelphia and New York. Pomerantz works across forms with purposeful materials to learn about ecological relations under extractive systems. Pomerantz is the founder of MATTERS, an educational initiative connecting art and design materials to labor and land, supporting creative practices rooted in awareness, repair and care.

Pomerantz’s work has been supported by Monument Lab, Pew Arts and Heritage, Philadelphia Mural Arts, Sachs Arts and Innovation and more. They have most recently shown work at Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery at Haverford College, Buoy Gallery in Maine and Automat in Philadelphia. Pomerantz has recently held residencies at Surf Point (Maine), the Church (Sag Harbor, NY) and Officina Stamperia Notaio (IT). Pomerantz is a recent recipient of a Leeway Foundation Art + Change grant.

Pomerantz works as a critic in the interdisciplinary MFA program at the School of Visual Arts and a lecturer in Fine Arts and Visual Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Pomerantz holds a BA in Art History from the University of Chicago, an MFA from the University of Pennsylvania in Interdisciplinary Art and an ED. M From Harvard University Graduate School of Education.

Pomerantz also curates exhibitions, writes and tends to oysters.

Education: 

BA: University of Chicago, Art History and Visual Art, 2008

MFA: University of Pennsylvania, Interdisciplinary Visual Art, 2016

Ed. M: Harvard Graduate School of Education, Arts in Education, 2022